Watch MGMT’s Endlessly, Absurdly Detailed ‘Your Life Is a Lie’ Video

First video from September 17 self-titled album piles on idiosyncrasies

Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden can’t be accused of laziness when it comes to the video for “Your Life Is a Lie,” from MGMT’s upcoming self-titled album (due out September 17 via Columbia Records). Directed by Tom Kuntz, who previously oversaw the “Congratulations” video, the clip never stops unveiling new and curious sights. There are skeletons and talking dolphins. A bird is set free. A choir sings, a woman turns into a man, a fetus appears, a banana is eaten, book titles flash snippets of lyrics, a lizard climbs out of a mouth, a nose resembles Pinocchio, and that’s only scratching the surface. Life, a lie or not, is clearly weird.

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